The upcoming Orb: On the Movements of the Earth TV anime made a surprise announcement today over who will be performing the opening theme song to the anime adaptation of Uoto’s manga. In their first ever anime song, Japanese rock band sakanaction will be performing the single with front man Ichiro Yamaguchi returning to the band for the first time in two years due to health reasons.
Studio MADHOUSE is producing the animation for Orb: On the Movements of the Earth. Specific staff members are yet to be announced. Uoto’s Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits from September 2020 to April 2022, for a total of eight volumes.
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes an official English version of the manga and describes the story as such:
In fifteenth-century Europe, heretics are being burned at the stake. Rafal, a brilliant young man, is expected to enter university at an early age and study the era’s most important field, theology. But Rafal values Reason above all else, which leads him both to the shocking conclusion that the Earth orbits the Sun, and into the hands of the Inquisition!A decade later, two members of the Watch Guild, the dour young Oczy and the cynical Gras, find a hidden stone chest that details the secrets of the universe Rafal left behind. Dare they try to change their own stars by selling the heretical texts, or would that only lead to the stake and the fire?
Source: sakanaction on X (formally Twitter)
